New mechanistic insights into adaptive learning
The brain is a fantastically complex and mysterious device, too large and with too many internal connections to be entirely programmable genetically. Its internal connectivity must therefore self-organize, based on the one hand on genetically regulated biases and on experience and learning on the other. The brain can change its internal connectivity based, for example, on correlations between the inputs it receives and the consequences of actions associated with those inputs, in a phenomenon we generally call associative learning. There are, in our daily life, numerous examples of this type of learning; its consequence is that a smell or a tune on the radio can trigger memories from the past, which lay dormant for some time.
New mechanistic insights into adaptive learning
The brain is a fantastically complex and mysterious device, too large and with too many internal connections to be entirely programmable genetically. Its internal connectivity must therefore ...
Fri 27 Jan 12 from Medical Xpress
New mechanistic insights into adaptive learning, Thu 26 Jan 12 from HealthCanal
Researchers identify mechanism behind associative memory by exploring insect brains
A key feature of human and animal brains is that they are adaptive; they are able to change their structure and function based on input from the environment and on the potential associations, ...
Thu 26 Jan 12 from Medical Xpress
Associative Memory Studied With Insect Brains
Researchers have explored the brains of insects and identified a mechanism by which the connections in their brain change to form new and specific memories of smells.
Fri 27 Jan 12 from Laboratory Equipment
Making Sense of Sensory Connections
Caltech Researchers Identify Mechanism Behind Associative Memory by Exploring Insect Brains
Thu 26 Jan 12 from HealthCanal
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Making sense of sensory connections, Thu 26 Jan 12 from e! Science News
Making sense of sensory connections: Researchers identify mechanism behind associative memory by exploring insect brains, Thu 26 Jan 12 from ScienceDaily
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